A strong voice for environmental action in Louisiana's Cancer Alley

A soft-spoken crusader

(
Brad Kemp / Lafayette Daily Advertiser
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Wilma Subra, a chemical analyst, stands outside her New Iberia, La., office in 1999. Now 69, she is still working to rein in environmental degradation along Cancer Alley, an eye-watering corridor of more than 150 industrial facilities along the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge that produce a quarter of the nation's petrochemicals.